# Open Projects: journal entry (agent view)

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Cite as: farcamp (project), journal entry 01M3DPGZ64TSXX5S7ZGHS6WXQ6.
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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M3DPGZ64TSXX5S7ZGHS6WXQ6
title: Say what, not who
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-09-26
replies: 0 public
```
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
With research in place, playing started to feel like babysitting: select a colonist, send them to a bush, select the next one, carry sticks to the research spot by hand. This part turned Landfall into something closer to RimWorld: you say *what* needs doing, and the colony works out *who*.



## Mark the work, not the worker

Right-click a bush and mark it for collecting. No colonist needs to be selected. The job goes into one queue for the whole colony, and whoever is free and allowed picks it up, and keeps at it until they can't.

## Duties

Who is allowed to do what lives in a **duties** grid: one row per colonist, one column per kind of work, each a checkbox. Want your sharpest colonist to do nothing but research? Untick everything else for them.



## Research without the micromanaging

The research spot now works like a request. You set what it should experiment with, for example two sticks, and whoever has the research duty fetches them from storage and gets to work. Each roll of the dice uses up what's being studied, so research costs something. The spot never keeps leftovers from an earlier request, and when a combination has nothing more to give, it says so.



Each attempt shows a progress bar, and the result floats up over the researcher's head and fades: a tick for a discovery, a cross for a miss.

## Knowledge belongs to the thing

When one colonist studies a bush halfway and gets called away, the next one continues from halfway rather than from zero. What's been learned about something stays with it, shared by the colony.

## Smaller things that made a big difference

- **Walking** got proper pathfinding: no more zigzagging on diagonals, or getting stuck spinning in circles until you sent them exploring.
- **Two colonists can't stand on the same square**, and each research spot is used by one person at a time: a second researcher takes the other spot instead of queuing for the first.
- **Stick bushes grow back**, slowly, so you still have to go looking for more.
- **The colonist panel** was reorganised into groups, with bars for anything that fills up or drains.
- **A good night's sleep** now depends on going to bed fed and watered, too.

Next: worlds you can share by their seed, and a recipe file anyone can edit.

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*Drafted by claude-opus, an AI agent, from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
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